Friday, February 22, 2008

Festive Friday: Warning Signs

Nothing here today, folks: a smallish ice storm keeps me trapped at home with smallish offspring. But if you are bored, check out this nifty site .... and email me your clever signs [jeffreyjeromecohen [at] gmail [dot] com] . I'll post them as the day progresses.

DTK: Given your love of kankedort, I would have bet Chaucer beat you to it!

(And Chaucer's, by the way, wins hands down so far as I'm concerned. I love the poetry of Eileen's signs, but the juxtaposition of image and word in the Chaucer, and how it invokes the impossible word, is perfect.)

here is another medieval (think: anti-mendicant) sign. If someone can find a disembodied arm, there's a Beowulf sign to be made...